Remarks on the Draft Decree“On the Introduction of Payment for Newspapers”

Written:Written November 15, 1921Published:First published in 1959 inLenin Miscellany XXXVI.

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Addendumnecessary either in the form of a number of on
control(strictest)of circulation free of charge,or make this obligatory by special instructions (one § or this)[1]

[1]Thedecree introducing payment for newspapers was endorsed by the
C.P.C. on November28, 1921.Under this decree all indi- viduals,
public institutions and organisations, and state institutions and
enterprises without exception were to be charged for newspapers. Lenin’s
motion formed the basis of Point 8 of the Decree, which directed the
People’s Commissariat for Education to draw up within a fortnight and
publish instructions covering control over the proper distribution of
newspapers to the network of educational institutions and the supply of
news- papers to the population (seeIzvestiaNo. 275, December 7,
1921).